sultanate
/ˈsʌltənət/
"sultanate" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sultanate” is uncommon English (frequency #57,108 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,108
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A sovereign or vassal princely state—usually Muslim—where the ruler is styled sultan.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sultanate · sultanate · English
sultanate · rank #57,108 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,108
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sunlit
Nearest frequency peer: sunlit (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “sultanate”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Strasser
Strasser
42,897 corpus weight
- subgenre
subgenre
42,896 corpus weight
- sultanate
sultanate
42,893 corpus weight
- sunlit
sunlit
42,892 corpus weight
- superbike
superbike
42,891 corpus weight
- suppressive
suppressive
42,889 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sultanate” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sultanate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsʌltənət/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,108 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sultanate” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sultanate is uncommon English at frequency #57,108 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈsʌltənət/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
sultanate doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Classical Persian سَلْطَنَت (saltanat). By surface analysis, sultan + -ate (forms noun denoting rank or office, the concrete charge of it). The correct English form is sultanate, spelled S-U-L-T-A-N-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1A sovereign or vassal princely state—usually Muslim—where the ruler is styled sultan.
- 2The office or position of sultan.
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian سَلْطَنَت (saltanat). By surface analysis, sultan + -ate (forms noun denoting rank or office, the concrete charge of it).
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).